Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 17:14:49 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files Message-ID: <20090530171449.3719f9d6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200905301412.50958.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <80cddf609e38046ffa0ce3f2bdab235c.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <139b44430905300456x62bf9c0ybf46bcab6b64e25@mail.gmail.com> <200905301412.50958.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:50 +0200 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:56:22 Valentin Bud wrote: > > 2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> > > You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text > > pattern while you are in a directory with many sub directories. The > > output is nice because it tells you the file in which the text > > pattern was found :). > > Discouraged because: > - it's possible to hit maxarglen if the root directory has many > subdirectories. > - Will not search hidden directories in the root directory because of > the shell glob You can replace "egrep -r <string> *" with "egrep -r <string> ." i.e. recurse from the current directory, rather than search or recurse on everything that matches *. That avoids the first two problems, and most of the time the third doesn't matter > - cannot be combined with other search criteria such as the file's > timestamp.
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